cooler master hyper 212x cpu cooler review

Ambient temperatures are fixed to 25☌, in an air-conditioned room.

The fans (and pumps, if available) will run at maximum speed to gauge maximal performance. To test the performance of CPU coolers, we run Realbench, with the “Up to 8GB RAM” setting for 30 minutes. The thermal paste of choice will be the MasterGel Maker, sponsored by Cooler Master. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Founders Edition Specifications Cooler Master Hyper 212 LED Turbo ARGB The fans can also be daisy chained to your motherboard’s ARGB header or the controller, which reduces the amount of wires snaking around your cooler. The bright aluminum fins help reflect the RGB lighting slightly, and it does look very nice overall. Cooler Master did machine the heatpipes to be flushed with the aluminum coldplate, to help improve the contact.Īnd here we have the cooler up and running on our system. While Cooler Master has explored a gapless design with the Hyper 212X coolers, it seems that the better design was to still keep a tiny gap between the heatpipes. It probably isn’t going to do much, but I guess every little bit counts?Īnd here’s a look at the coldplate. On the coldplate, we have some a tiny heatsink here to help dissipate some of the heat directly before it gets wicked away by the heatpipes. I really like this, as it makes attaching the fans much easier than the fiddly wires that some coolers still use. Nice plastic clips help attach the fans to the Cooler Master Hyper 212 LED Turbo ARGB, with the fans themselves securely mounted to the clips via screws. It’s just for the looks.Ĭooler Master went with the latest SickleFlow 120 ARGB fans, and also bundled a SickleFlow 120 ARGB Reverse Edition to ensure that all you see are the sweet, RGB-infused fans, and not the less aesthetically-pleasing frame. The diagonal lines remind me of the Hyper D92 and the offset fan designs that Cooler Master explored in the past, but we don’t exactly have that here. The defining characteristic of the Hyper 212 Turbo series is this aluminum top cover, with nice slits in it to show off the bright aluminum fins underneath. Now, let’s take a look at the cooler itself. The Cooler Master Hyper 212 LED Turbo ARGB comes with the standard plastic backplate that Cooler Master provides with their Hyper series coolers. There’s also a user manual here, filled with images to guide you along your way.Īnd here’s a closer look at all the hardware you get in the box. Inside, you get a smaller box containing all the mounting hardware, ARGB controller, fan splitter and a small tube of MasterGel thermal paste.

Cooler master hyper 212x cpu cooler review